So, as I understand it, Lanchester pretty much only directly applies to skirmish lines. That's not to say he's incorrect, just... OBE._________________

Vebyast wrote:

Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.

So, as I understand it, Lanchester pretty much only directly applies to skirmish lines. That's not to say he's incorrect, just... OBE.

There's a whole field of study, called survivability, where engineers try to figure out the survival ratios of vehicles and people in given situations. Unlike Lanchester though, you probably won't find the formulas online.

Zang. I knew about Huguenots since a branch of my family hails from that group (on my mother's side they've got records going back about 500 years), sounds like Cagots had it many times rougher and I had never even heard of them before.

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Koumei wrote:

After all, in Firefox you keep tabs in your browser, but in SovietPutin's Russia, browser keeps tabs on you.

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